{"id":72,"date":"2008-06-25T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-06-25T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:01:03","slug":"more-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-apache-evilness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2008\/06\/more-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-apache-evilness\/","title":{"rendered":"More useful keyboard shortcuts; Apache evilness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a sequel to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=29\">browser shortcuts post<\/a>, here're two new shortcuts that rocked my world (ok, almost..) :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>F4:<\/strong> opens a select box. Seems like a standard for all UIs! (Windows\/Linux at least)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tick (') key in FireFox:<\/strong> would switch to 'search' mode just like slash (\/), but would search for links only. Just type the beginning of the link's name and hit Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Do you know any other shocking keyboard shortcuts?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On a completely other subject, I was fighting (along with a collegue) today with Apache httpd's configuration. The web server seemed to \"automatically guess\" URLs in a weird fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The cause is that we had the <a title=\"Apache 2.2 doc\" href=\"http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/content-negotiation.html#multiviews\">MultiViews<\/a> feature enabled. With MultiViews, when a URL points to a nonexisting file, i.e. <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>http:\/\/mydomain\/my\/file<\/em><\/span>, apache tries to look for an existing file which looks similar  to the directory (I won't describe here the exact algorithm), i.e.<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>http:\/\/mydomain\/my.php<\/em><\/span>. Then it loads it instead, and the user doesn't get 404.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some people need it.. but it's also weird and error-prone..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sequel to this browser shortcuts post, here&#8217;re two new shortcuts that rocked my world (ok, almost..) : F4: opens a select box. Seems like a standard for all UIs! (Windows\/Linux at least) Tick (&#8216;) key in FireFox: would switch to &#8216;search&#8217; mode just like slash (\/), but would search for links only. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,13],"tags":[19,50,57,71,104,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}